Gov’t Effort to Derail Former DEA Agent's Lawsuit

Conroy: Gov’t Effort to Derail Former DEA Agent's Lawsuit Marked by Deceit

November 2, 2009
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Dear Colleague,

Since 1994 when former DEA agent Richard Horn filed a lawsuit against two high-ranking officials in the CIA and State Department the US government has been attempting to derail the case.

Bill Conroy continues his reporting on the Horn case as even more information is revealed from documents that show dishonest tactics on the part of the government officials:

“The September 9 motion filed by attorneys from the DOJ’s Civil Division was an effort to convince the appeals court to issue an emergency ‘stay,’ or hold, on the Horn case proceedings pending a review ‘of the district [lower] court’s order compelling the government to grant [or renew] security clearances to [private] counsel [for Horn and the defendants in the case — a former CIA station chief and a former State Department chief of mission]. …’

“…The problem with that effort, however, is that the claims advanced in the government’s September 9 motion to support that dire narrative appear to be fabrications — when those claims are compared with the facts in the court record.”

Read the complete report online at Narco News:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2009/11/us-government%E2%80%99s-effort-derail-former-dea-agents-lawsuit-marked-deceit

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